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Onam wishes and dishes

Onam is here, it’s tomorrow! And a lot of us have been waiting for it..

One of the things I enjoy about not working is the fact that I get to celebrate festivals better. The first time I made a Onasadya was last year – before that, the day would come and go. The last time I actually celebrated Onam was when I was at home with parents, a long long time ago.. Those days, I was not particularly fond of the sadya. I was more fond of north indian cuisine. When I got married to a non mallu, funnily, he turned out more fond of the sadya that I was. But over the years – probably, thanks to the fact that I hardly get to eat it, I have been craving mallu food.

Last year, I did make the sadya and had a friend over for lunch and we had planned to enjoy Onam – but daughter had other plans. She managed to fall and hurt herself and I managed to spend the afternoon in the accident and emergency in the Hospital and my poor friend did not even get to have lunch 😦 This year, hopefully, it will be different, good different hopefully. I also plan to make the pookalam, the flower carpet, welcoming Mavelli home, which I hope daughter enjoys too.

Today, some of us planned to have a virtual Ona sadya – to make some of you drool 🙂 So here are my contributions… Avial and Pal Payasam. Please hop over to Deeps’ for more info and more yummy recipes!

Avial

Avial is a sort of mixed vegetables. And it has been a favourite of mine since years.

Garnishing1. Elaichi 3 powdered – I am not too fond of the taste of elaichi – so I normally avoid it.2. Cashewnuts and raisins – as per taste

Method

Use thick bottomed pressure cooker with vent.
1. Boil Milk – adding water .
2. Add the washed and cleaned rice in boiling milk.
3. Keep the pressure on and cook on low flame for 35 to 40 minutes. (no whistle required).
4. After the pressure has cooled down open the cooker.
Mix thoroughly, boil for 5 minutes in medium flame.
5. Now add the Sugar and cook for another 10 minutes.
6. Garnish with the dry fruits

That was yumy yum yum!!You already made the dishes??I’m planning to make them tomorrow.One of my friends(Namnam’s friend’s mother) who lives in the same building is planning to make Avial & Adapradaman and I’ll b making sambar & erisseri .So it will be a joined effort,although will have lunch at our respective homes with the family 🙂 !leaving to buy all the stuff from the supermarket in a while!so excited!

Wow! We had that plan, but my friend has an exam day after tom – which she forgot about 🙂 So I told her that I will do the cooking and all I want is for them to come 🙂 And we are having the sadya in the evening – tomorrow -instead of lunch time – I am the only vella one here 😦 I did all the shopping yesterday 🙂 I made just these two so that I could take pics and post them 🙂 Though I know, should n’t be feeding people one day old food 😦

“One of the things I enjoy about not working is the fact that I get to celebrate festivals better.”I can so relate with you,Smits.And also the fact that we’re away from home makes us want to do all those traditional things that we grew up watching & doing,by which we stay rooted and our kids too are aware of them.

I know! I never thought of this aspect of things earlier but ever since Kunju came into our lives – I think my perspective has changed..

Onam aashamsakal to you too,Smits and lots of special payasam-ummas to Kunju 🙂

Onam aashamsakal to you too, Deeps and lots of wishes and ummas to Namnam 🙂 Kunju has already inaugurated the payasam 🙂

Same with me smitha,before never celebrated festivals like what we used to do in india,now at home and want kids to know the festivals which i enjoyed in india.The only festival we used to celebrate here were diwali and sankrantri(telugu new year)

I know! It is funny, isn’t it? How our priorities, our perspective change after we become mothers!

Deeps just let me know when you are planning to go to Delhi…will plan my trip accordingly. My husband and son can eat north Indian food at his parents place while I can reconnect with my mallu taste buds at ur place 🙂

First of all wishing all of you a Happy Onam. so you guys are having a sadya and am sulking here. No way we are having any kind of food cooked at home :(. let me sob at that thought for a while and come back…sobs!!

No Sadya bcoz am stuck in some weird workshop for the rest of the week and having a throbbing head on my shoulders due to the non stop fun we had with friends for the past 4 days. It was my son’s 5th bday this past sunday. He is all grown up now…sobs! say’s now he doesn’t want me to dress him up…sobs…

Oh dear! I thought you were not working? Oh do wish the little man a very belated birthday 🙂 All grown up 🙂 This one here thinks she is all grown up and does not let me dress her 😦 Wonder what she will do when she turns 5 😦

Smitha, I am just drooling since morning. Everywhere I turn, there is a Onasadya or talk about it. Friends from Denver calling and asking us to join them which of course we can’t do because things are just too hectic here.

🙂 Yes, there is ona sadya everywhere, this year 🙂

Love you aviyal and payasam recipes. Are you making entire spread? Me making it on weekend.Yes, planning to 🙂 But we are having it for dinner instead 😦 Having friends over and am so excited about it 🙂 We are planning to go for a Malayali association sadya on saturday 🙂

Here’s wishing you and Poohi mol a happy and prosperous Onam!Thank you Sols! Wish you and Peanut kutty a very happy and properous Onam too!

Just spoke to mom and she is done with most of the stuff like achaar and inji curry and all. They have a family reunion Onam thing after couple of days. So two Onams at our home. 😦 😦 Then entire family going to Munnar. Tell me why the hell am I here? 😦

We use Raw Mango for that puli taste. I use yogurt for making it mush-mush. I don’t like it too dry but you come to TVM, you will get dry aviyal with no yogurt at all. 🙂

Oh wow! Raw mango – I love the taste of raw mango. I got some raw mangoes here – in the India store, a couple of months back, so I chopped them and preserved them with salt.. Will see if I can make mango pachadi out of that tomorrow.. But these mangoes were not as sour – like the ones we get in India 😦

i’m drooling at palpayasam….looks so delicious…i had a genume onam celebration almost 4 years back ….since my college final year,couldn’t able to go home and celebrate due to different commitments
in between thanks for the recipe,now let me pull my cousin sister to try some 🙂